Firstborn graduated last year.  He was accepted into a four of the five schools he applied to–all in different states. He really wanted to go to one of two schools in particular and he made it his goal to get in.  Once he was accepted […]

I’m sorry for the delay in getting this up today.  It’s been a whirlwind week and I’m just catching my breath. This was this month’s inspiration pallet–we actually started this challenge in May (May the Fourth be with you). I’ve been wanting to try my […]

Recently we had a spaghetti dinner fundraiser for our boy scout troop.  It included a cake auction and the boys were asked to donate a cake they had made.  Some of the boys made desserts, but clearly some of the parents helped out as well. […]

This post does not reflect the usual interaction our special needs youth normally have with Scouting.  I share this as an example of how we still have work to do to in communities at large so individuals with Autism can be understood and helped to […]

I’m late in posting this, but let’s pretend it actually came out on Saturday… One of my favorite crafting endeavors is to digitally scrapbook.  I have been scrapbooking in some form for a long time.  I started way back when we had to go to […]

This was supposed to be the Memorial Day post about summer.  Instead it’s going up today, close to Independence Day.  If you’re wondering why, read HERE. *************** Happy Memorial (Independence) Day! As someone with lots of military service in my family, it’s a particularly poignant holiday […]

I spent the last week volunteering at Cub Scout Day Camp.  Acroboy is in his last year of Cub Scouts as a Webelo. The crafts weren’t too hard for the most part, but when you are trying to teach several groups of boys of varying […]

When I was a little girl, I remember a Sunday lesson on death.  The teacher had a glove.  She asked us if it could move on its own.  We answered no.  She put the glove on and demonstrated how moving her fingers inside the glove […]

I had intended to post on Memorial Day about part of our summertime game plan. Instead I found my family packing up to race across country–in hopes of saying goodbye to our beloved Grandmother. She was a powerhouse of faith, service and spirituality.  We will […]

Background on the Mickey Mouse Tie-dye Shirts: I originally made the first Mickey Mouse tie-dye matching shirts and this post for my family back in 2011.  I did it because I had seen the idea on social media and thought it would be really fun […]